The Promise through Faith Still Applies

Romans 4:9-12

It doesn’t matter who a person is, if their faith is in Jesus Christ then they are considered righteous by God. The world we live in today has no intentions of welcoming everybody into their family. The internal government has the ability to form thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and can endow a person with extraordinary skill, knowledge, and emotional comforts. What it gives are sins of the flesh because its endowments replace the cleansing of sin that comes through Jesus Christ. The internal government of the mark of the beast is not for the whosoever that comes to it in faith believing. God is the only One who gives Salvation freely to anyone who has faith in Jesus Christ.

The system of the internal government could create a peaceful and happy place, but they do not. It is not Fatherly, nor Motherly towards the whosoever of humanity. The turbulence in the world shows that something is off. Instead of embracing everyone they exclude and cancel people out. They exclude those who live for Jesus Christ while they include those who live by the mark of the beast. It is sin. Its favor only rests on their human robots who and everyone else is tossed aside. Its favor has nothing to do with who believes in it nor who has faith in it. To give everyone the possibility of being righteous with God through faith in Jesus Christ is a seldom heard message today. But the promise through faith still applies.

What Paul describes is what this verse says. “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16 Whoever we are and whatever our past, if our faith is in Jesus Christ we will be declared righteous by God. We will have our sins cleansed in the eyes of God and inherit the gift of eternal life. It’s for us to choose Jesus Christ over the mark of the beast.

Paul explains that Abraham is the father of whoever has faith in Jesus Christ. That was the promise made by God to Abraham about being the father of many nations (Genesis 12). The law of circumcision was just an external sign of that promise. Circumcision would serve as a constant reminder of the covenant made though faith and belief (Genesis 17). Abraham was circumcised a couple decades after God had declared him to be righteous because of his belief. So, circumcision never had anything to do with pleasing God, it was only a memorial of what actually did please God, faith and belief. It would come to signify the circumcision of Christian hearts from this world as we live by faith through Jesus Christ.

“Is this blessedness only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? We have been saying that Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness. Under what circumstances was it credited? Was it after he was circumcised, or before? It was not after, but before! And he received circumcision as a sign, a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but have not been circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them. And he is then also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised but who also follow in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.”
Romans 4:9-12